hello and welcome to this video this is machine dana i hope you're doing really really well
in this video i'm going to be showing you how you can add gifs to customizable buttons on the elgato
stream deck so on the elgato stream deck they're really really cool they've enabled gifs to be kind
of resizable and what that means is that you can have animations on your elgato stream deck buttons
it's a really cool extra thing that they've got because it means that you can make it way more
aesthetically pleasing and just a lot cooler to be honest um there's absolutely no function to having
a gif instead of an image other than the fact that it's just kind of cool looking so uh within this
very short video i'll show you how you can add a gif to the buttons i've done loads of videos
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dana if you want to see some of these in action on my stream without further ado we'll get into it
first of all i have actually done separate videos on how you can customize the keys with the static
image and also how we can customize the keys with a kind of multi-button image like a wallpaper in
this case this is my logo that spans all these wallpapers these are actually simple hotkeys with
no assigned hotkey they're simply they've got an image attached to them and this particular button
here this hand here is the folder button which allows me to drop into my main folders so feel
free to check out those videos in my elgato stream deck playlist if you want to add a gif to your
buttons it's really really dead simple you simply go into a button the desired button that you want
it to work on you left click the button and then you simply set it as a hotkey you drag it over
now you can also set it as a folder as well either one will work you can technically have it as
virtually any single button to customize but if it's purely an aesthetic reason for having the
gif then you want to make sure it's a hotkey or a folder if you want to have a gif over a
bunch a button that has a function you can easily customize that as well it doesn't really matter
then all you have to do is simply left click on the button be that in this case the hotkey or
in this case the folder you click the down arrow here and you set from file and then you select the
file that you actually want to add there now just very briefly i'm going to show how you can take
gif files from the internet and kind of i'm not going to go into depth about how you can
edit them but at least how you can save them to a usable file this is really for the absolute
beginners that have got no experience in kind of saving gift files or searching for them
but just to demonstrate very quickly all you really have to do for adding that file now is
selecting the file that you have in this case i've got the mario gif i'm going to actually open this
just to show you what that looks like so anyone that's played the the nez would have recognized
that that mario but maybe the the newer people around here may not have ever seen that mario
so i'm going to select that that gif file here i'm going to open that now that give file basically
has a transparent background which on the elgato stream deck is set to black now that doesn't look
like a gif file but i will put a video up here of what that actually looks like on my stream deck
and that's it literally that's it you can also give it a title if you want text title and that
will also show you can drop the second word down by pressing enter and the gif will play underneath
the title most people probably won't have that and that's literally it for adding the gif that
will literally work now as is so just to show how you'd go about saving the gif images to your file
you can do a google search for uh there are a few different gif providers out there like uh i
think it's immigra uh iffy cat uh this one here um there's also 10 or it's quite a good one as well
um so there's a few different ones you can go for but i wouldn't recommend going for any of those
i'd actually recommend just doing a google search for example mario uh gif do a straightforward gift
search then what you want to do is click on images within google and then within the tools section
there's a drop down here which allows you to go on to the type and you can search for gif here this
essentially allows you to search virtually all of the gifts that are out there not just the ones
that are limited to the providers that i mentioned earlier and let's just take a look at an example
of this this is a different mario one transparency here is there i can see because it's a white image
here but it's showing up as the alpha squares behind so i know that that's a transparent one
but it doesn't have to be a transparent one you may want one for example that is
that has a background like that uh all you all you need to do here is right click and save image as
i'll stick this on desktop and now if i want to i can change this image i can simply set that from
the desktop here mario gif open and that will then set that as well and just to show what that looks
like again i'll also place a video here so you can see in more detail what that looks like on
the actual stream deck it's pretty cool so there you have it that's how you can set customizable
gifs to the buttons on your elgato stream deck and that includes both transparent gifs and also ones
with the background uh really really dead simple to do also showing you how you can search for them
and save those files to your pc if you found this useful again give it a thumbs up
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